Jessica Chastain offered lead in Aaron Sorkin’s “Molly’s Game”February 19, 2016 - 15:52 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Oscar winner Aaron Sorkin has offered two-time Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain the lead in his directorial debut, “Molly’s Game”, TheWrap said citing multiple individuals familiar with the Sony project. Chastain recently launched her own production company, Freckle Films, so she is still figuring out her schedule and has not accepted or declined the offer yet. Negotiations have yet to begin, though insiders suggest that Chastain is eager to fit “Molly’s Game” into her busy schedule, given the project’s pedigree. Sony had no comment. Set in the world of high-stakes poker, the film is based on the memoir by Molly Bloom that Sorkin adapted himself. Bloom was a world-class skier who, after failing to make the Olympics, took a year off before law school and accepted a job as a waitress in Los Angeles. She put her entrepreneurial skills to good use and eventually found her way into running high-stakes poker games for Hollywood’s elite for eight years before the FBI brought her down. Sorkin’s “Steve Jobs” collaborator Mark Gordon will produce with Amy Pascal, the former Sony executive who distributed Chastain’s acclaimed drama “Zero Dark Thirty.” Leopoldo Gout is also a producer on the high-profile project. Chastain earned two Oscar nominations herself thanks to her work in “Zero Dark Thirty” and “The Help.” The actress recently starred in “The Martian” and “Crimson Peak,” and she’ll soon begin filming the gun control movie “Miss Sloane” and Xavier Dolan‘s indie drama “The Death and Life of John F. Donovan.” Chastain next stars alongside Chris Hemsworth in “The Huntsman Winter’s War” and could find herself in the awards race again this fall with Niki Caro’s Focus Features release “The Zookeeper’s Wife.” Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/ Getty Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Russia provides info about arrested Armenian ex-MP Russian law enforcement agencies have provided information about the arrest of Tigran Urikhanyan. Lemkin Institue slams Pashinyan's “cryptic engagement with Genocide denial” The Lemkin Institute is alarmed over Pashinyan’s statements “questioning Armenia's legal basis to pursue justice against Turkey”. 41 detained as antigovernment protests continue in Yerevan 41 people were detained in Yerevan as people demanding Pashinian’s resignation stage campaigns of civil disobedience. Armenia votes for UN resolution granting Palestine new rights The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on May 10 to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine. |